What courses build a practical skill?

Which courses build certain practical skillsets rather than the usual essay writing and pure theory.

What I mean by a practical skill is something that is:
- useful wherever you go
- gains entry into a job because you have that skillset.
- teaches you about building or operating a complex system (business, machines, staff)

Which courses build certain practical skillsets rather than the usual essay writing and pure theory.

What I mean by a practical skill is something that is:
- useful wherever you go
- gains entry into a job because you have that skillset.
- teaches you about building or operating a complex system (business, machines, staff)

That's all a bit confused. Skills that are useful wherever you go are basically things like communication, common sense, good timekeeping and reliability. Those are life skills, you don't get them from a course, you get them from living an active, out-going life, saying yes to things and trying new activities.


Thereafter, there's no practical universal or general practical skill that 'gets you a job because you have that skill set' save for those life-skills mentioned above. If you want to be a bricklayer you have to have a specific set of skills you'd learn on a bricklaying course.

If you want to learn about engineering, machines etc then you have to do a relevant practical course either at College, as an apprentice, or for taster sessions, try local evening classes. Business and staff (usually called HR, Human Resources), then it can either be a course, or getting an admin job in a business/organisation and working your way up through internal training and development.

I am considering an apprenticeship but am concerned about whether there is a glass ceiling if you don'tget a degree.

There won't be if you are good enough.

paraphrasing what you said earlier:
I can try vocational courses (engineering, veterinary, accounting) which help develop skills specific to that profession.